Travel Tip: Classical Music in Canada
Stewart Goodyear: The Beethoven Marathon

Pianist Stewart Goodyear undertakes the Herculean challenge of playing all 32 Beethoven sonatas in a single day.

PART 1
(10:00 AM – 2:00 PM)  4 hours, with intermission.
Sonatas No. 1 through 11, as well as No. 19 and No. 20, including the “Grand Sonata” and “Pathétique.”

PART 2
(3:00 PM – 6:30 PM) 3.5 hours, with intermission.
Sonatas No. 12 through 23 (except Nos. 19 and 20), including the “Moonlight,” “Pastoral,” “Tempest,” and “Appassionata.”

PART 3
(8:30 PM – 11:30PM) 3 hours, with intermission.
Sonatas No. 24 through 32, including “Les adieux” and “Hammerklavier.”

Luminato has commissioned internationally acclaimed Indonesian performance artist Melati Suryodarmo to create an on-stage performance piece that will continue throughout Stewart Goodyear’s marathon of 32 Beethoven sonatas. Suryodarmo’s three performance sequences will provide subtle, almost motionless visual enrichment that heightens the listening experience.

Pre-concert lecture by Dr. Antonio Damasio to be held at 7:30 PM in Mazzoleni Concert Hall.  Dr. Damasio is Dornsife Professor of Neuroscience and Director of the Brain and Creativity Institute at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. His books include Descartes’ Error, The Feeling of What Happens, Looking for Spinoza and, most recently, Self Comes to Mind, which was awarded the Corine International Book Prize.